At 4:57 PM -0600 11/29/00, Jim Choate wrote:
Sunder raises a good point about Netscape (and potentially other software as well) amd forwarding URL's with attached content.
Why is the page attached? Because Netscape attaches the page and doesn't offer a way to send only the URL from right click -> send page. There isn't a switch to set default behaviour (and there should be).
So, if you got a bitch about your copyright being infringed, take it to Netscape since they wrote the program without a mechanism that prevents users from committing copyright infringement.
As you like to say, "Bullshit!" I sometimes excerpt articles here. And to avoid the problems with HTML and "too much" and "too many headers," I usually have to spend time cutting and pasting from my screen to ensure that "What I See Is What I Send" (WISIWIS). I urge _you_ to spend the extra minutes to avoid sending us the clutter you think Netscape requires you to send. Get a clue.
As to using HTML, this is 2000 (soon to be 2001). Get used to it. Hell, I might start embedding ANSI VT100 color codes and the occassional ^g. Animated ANSI would be pretty cool too.
No, HTML is _not_ a good idea in e-mail. People are reading e-mail on a variety of platforms, on HP Jornadas, on Palms and Visors, on iPAQs, and so on. And HTML in e-mail rarely is used to any significant effect. You, Greg Newby, and Ernest Hua are the main offenders. I urge you all to get a clue. (And then there's Riad Wahby, whose signed messages are unopenable by Eudora Pro. He is doing _something_ which makes my very-common mailer choke on his messages. Not my problem, as his messages then get deleted by me unread. Again, standard ASCII is the lingua franca which avoids this problem.) --Tim May -- (This .sig file has not been significantly changed since 1992. As the election debacle unfolds, it is time to prepare a new one. Stay tuned.)